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From: jdege@jdege.visi.com (Jeffrey C. Dege)
Subject: Re: What is wrong with OO ?
Date: 1996/12/19
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On 18 Dec 1996 19:19:05 GMT, Matt Kennel <mbk@caffeine.engr.utk.edu> wrote:
>Tom Bushell (tbushell@fox.nstn.ns.ca) wrote:
>: On Tue, 17 Dec 1996 00:45:47 -0800, Tansel Ersavas <tansel@deep.net>
>: wrote:
>: >Visual programming is to textual programming what
>: >is textual programming to assembly language.
>
>: Good analogy.
>
>Is it really?  Can a painting communicate subtle ideas as clearly as 
>literature?

Easily.  Can painting communicate non-visual ideas as _precisely_ as
literature?  Not a chance.

-- 
Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's
supposed to do.
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